Well video fans, Chris is at it again. You'll love this one. One more time he gives you a minimalist intro and quick video that will have you doing your own research for hours and quite possibly days. Have fun.

MS Terminal Services for Windows Server, Remote Assistance for Windows XP and RDP allow for remote interactive connections to Windows Servers and Windows XP machines. Just like Telnet and SSH, these can be powerful connections that in most cases are only protected with a username and password. There are several publicly available tools that will perform dictionary and bruteforce attacks against Terminal Services and Remote Assistance services. These tools include TSGrinder and TScrack for Windows and Rdesktop (with a patch) for *nix. In this video we will see some example attacks using these tools.

Thanks Chris, good work. It never fails to amaze me that brute force password attacks are one of the oldest tricks in the book and remain still so successful. I won't bother asking if anyone has seen the movie Wargames